iOS Software Engineer

Location: Cape Town

Department: Mr D Engineering

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented iOS Engineer to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do 
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to an Engineering Manager 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Take ownership, build, and maintain our bleeding-edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.
• Modernise legacy codebase and drive platform evolution
• Design, develop, and test code written in Swift
• Apply best practices and ensure the stability and security of the applications.
• Monitor and profile application performance.
• Take part in daily standups, with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Collaborate with creative, content, and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.
• Publish applications to the Apple App Store

The skills we need:

• Strong programming fundamentals.
• Experience in architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining iOS mobile applications.
• Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practices.
• Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller, and tableview life-cycles.
• Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
• Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.
• Experience using GIT version control.
• Experience developing in an Agile team environment
• Experience using CI/CD (CircleCI)
• Experience using Fastlane
• Experience using Cocoapods
• Experience using Swift Package Manager
• Github Actions
• Be accountable, engaging, and inventive.
• Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Figma and Miro.
• Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.
• Any Android experience.
• Experience using AI to generate and/or validate code

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 5 years relevant experience. 
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience for an Intermediate Software Engineer
• Minimum 5-8+ years of experience for a Senior Software Engineer coupled with tech lead experience
• Solid experience with SwiftUI

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D 

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• TakealotMORE Benefit 
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IoT, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!